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作者：Balakrishnan, Anantaram; Sundaresan, Shankar; Mohapatra, Chinmoy
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Camden
摘要：Many firms that offer home delivery of products purchased online now provide consumers the option of subscribing to a membership plan for free delivery of limited or unlimited number of orders instead of customers paying delivery charges for each order. This paper seeks to understand the benefits to firms and consumers of introducing such free-delivery subscription (FDS) plans to complement their traditional pay-for-delivery (PFD) option, characterize the firm's optimal FDS subscription pricin...
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作者：Gao, Chaoyue; Gu, Bin; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Liu, Xianwei; Ye, Qiang
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Boston University; City University of Hong Kong; Harbin Institute of Technology
摘要：The swift advancement of social technologies has created unprecedented opportunities for companies to embrace new business models or bolster their existing ones. However, the adoption of controversial technologies with social characteristics can also expose firms to risks, as these technologies may not be entirely under their operational control. In this study, our objective is to analyze the impact of the adoption of a controversial technology (i.e., cryptocurrency payment) on users' percepti...
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作者：Wang, Lan; Rajapakshe, Tharanga; Vakharia, Asoo J.
作者单位：California State University System; California State University East Bay; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Two empirical observations motivate the focus of this article. First, stemming from the increased demand for electronics, there is a significant change in the number of substitute product offerings. For example, within a product category, Eaton and Dell both offer remanufactured/refurbished products and new products to consumers. Second, to better manage expenses for e-waste, social planners levy fees on producers or consumers of electronic products. Integrating these two aspects, the key issu...
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作者：Gupta, Ayush; Jayaswal, Sachin; Mantin, Benny
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; University of Luxembourg
摘要：Manufacturing cost plays a crucial role in suppliers' encroachment decisions. A high manufacturing cost impedes suppliers' capacity to encroach. However, cost learning may reduce this cost sufficiently enough to make encroachment profitable for the supplier at a later point in time. Accordingly, he may have an incentive to boost production so as to promote cost learning. Thus, he may drop the wholesale price to induce the retailer to buy more. On the one hand, cost learning may enable encroach...
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作者：Jiang, Zhong-Zhong; Zang, Yuanji; Xu, Jiayan
作者单位：Northeastern University - China; Northeastern University - China; Northeastern University - China; Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：Motivated by the trend that a gray market such as overseas shopping is thriving on E-commerce platforms, this paper investigates the impacts of the gray market on global supply chain management. We consider a multinational firm (MNF) that outsources product manufacturing to a contract manufacturer (CM) in China and sells products in both the China market and overseas market. Owing to the price gap between the two markets, gray firms may purchase products in the low-price market and compete wit...
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作者：Tan, Weiqiang; Wang, Wenming; Zhang, Wenlan
作者单位：Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK); Zhejiang University; Dongbei University of Finance & Economics
摘要：We examine the causal effects of nearby terrorist attacks on supplier-customer relationships. We find that for supplier firms located near terrorist attacks, the probability of relationship termination with their major customers increases by 2.9 percentage points within two years following the attacks. The major customers' intensified perceptions of supply chain risk largely drive the relationship termination. Further analyses show that major customers tend to switch to suppliers with lower te...
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作者：Shockley, Jeff; Merrick, Jason R. W.; Liu, Xiaojin; Smith, Jeffery S.
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要：Companies across many industries seek to understand how customer ordering impacts supply chain distribution performance. In the US medical supplies industry, wholesalers are uniquely positioned to use information about downstream customers to study and potentially influence buyer policies and practices due to their industry scale and data visibility. In this study, wholesale medical supplies buyers are first examined based on their ordering practices over a 2-year window using the theoretical ...
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作者：Li, Rong; Yang, Liangbin; Yue, Xiaohang
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Syracuse University
摘要：Facing consumers' growing demand for fast order fulfillment, it is important yet challenging for franchise companies to best incentivize frequent inventory sharing among their independent franchise retailers or dealers to achieve channel coordination. Past literature has only addressed such channel coordination for one-time inventory sharing using contractual agreements, which unfortunately do not work for frequent inventory sharing. In this study, we consider multiple inventory-sharing opport...
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作者：Taube, Florian; Minner, Stefan
作者单位：Technical University of Munich; Technical University of Munich
摘要：We consider a periodic review single-item inventory model under stochastic demand. Every m periods, in the regular order period, fixed order costs are K. In the periods in-between, the intraperiods, higher fixed order costs of L>K$L>K$ apply. The literature on optimal inventory policies under fixed order costs does not account for these time-dependent fixed order costs. By generalizing existing proofs for optimal inventory policies, we close this gap in inventory theory. The optimal inventory ...
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作者：Anderson, David; Bjarnadottir, Margret Vilborg; Ross, David Gaddis
作者单位：Villanova University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Employers are under increasing pressure from regulators, investors, and their own employees to address gender pay inequity in their compensation structure. However, managers tasked with measuring and closing gender and other pay gaps have few helpful quantitative tools at their disposal. We design and implement an algorithm that measures whether an employer has a pay gap and suggests salary adjustments to close it, all while supporting the employer's goals with respect to equity, culture, and ...
